by | Aug 24, 2009 | Stories
I tell people that I’ve only won two things in my life: a Lionel train set during 7th grade and the 1969 draft lottery. I was a senior at NC State on selection night in 1969, studying with the radio tuned into the lottery. When September 14th, my...
by | Aug 23, 2009 | Stories
Although I had had some ROTC experience, I was not enamored with going to Viet Nam. OCS was closed when I graduated in June of 1970, so I enlisted, in an attempt to obtain an MOS that was non-combat related. I went into the Quartermaster Corps after completing basic...
by | Aug 23, 2009 | Stories
Scary times… My wife was 4 months pregnant (the exemption for children had recently been discontinued) and I had just drawn a guaranteed-to-get- picked number. I was to graduate in May of 1970. Before I finished up at NCSU I was called up for...
by | Aug 20, 2009 | Stories
My lottery number was low enough for me to get a letter from the Draft Board to report for a physical. I was a student at NC State, married with one child and one on the way. I wasn’t particulary fond of being drafted but I wasn’t going to...
by | Aug 19, 2009 | Stories
I was a UCLA student during the first lottery in 1969. When it occurred, my birthday came up 107 and I was I-A as student deferments had been dispensed with. At that time, we heard the government was going to take all numbers up to 195 so I...
by | Aug 18, 2009 | Stories
I was attending NC State and living in an apartment with two roommates. One of my friends (Tim) from Campbell College showed up at the apartment and suggested we all go out partying as the lottery could change our lives forever. (We were all I-A). My two roomies...
